Word: pearling
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Ever since it gained independence from Britain in 1962, Uganda has been racked by bouts of tribal war, political ineptitude and state-approved brutality that badly eroded the once lustrous prospects of a country that Explorer Henry Stanley called "the pearl of Africa." Uganda probably reached its nadir under the infamous Idi Amin Dada, who seized power in 1971 from the country's first leader, Apollo Milton Obote. During Amin's eight-year reign of terror, an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 people were killed, and thousands more were forced into exile. After the dictator expelled the country...
...Undergraduate Council was designed to serve students in every conceivable way, and it has the power to do so. I urge you to use that power expansively. Natasha Pearl...
...Army airmen who flew with James H. Doolittle on April 18, 1942. That was the day the U.S. put 16 B-25s over Tokyo and four other Japanese cities in a raid that did little damage but -- pardon the French -- boosted the hell out of post- Pearl Harbor morale. "My wife is always saying 'What's wrong with you?' " Cole went on. "You see, every time I hear a B-25 or a C-147, I know what it is. It has something to do with the inner ear, I guess...
...immoral to begin with, that the deed which precipitates a conflict becomes by far the most significant event. Some have blamed the United States for discriminatory economic practices against the Japanese during the 1930's and have said this policy led to W.W. II. But the bombing of Pearl Harbor was such a leap from hardball diplomacy it made the personal decision to fight, let alone the national one, simple...
...world's finest craftsmen: goldsmiths, jewelers, wizards who worked in enamel. The Treasury of San Marco Venice (Abrams; 337 pages; $60) displays the loot, and poring over the glittering pictures is like wandering in a celestial gem shop. Among the glories here are a lyrical alabaster-and-pearl paten, which may have come from St. Sophia, and an opulent, dappled sardonyx chalice decorated with enamel figures that resemble mini-mosaics. There are treasuries or reliquaries in important churches all over Europe, but very few gladden the worldly connoisseur's eye like this...